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Title: Floating Lanterns
Condition: New
Description: When Las linternas flotantes (Floating Lanterns) was first published, in 2009, Mercedes Roffe explained that the book was "a reaction to things that left us speechless: September 11, Argentina's economic debacle that led to long months of national and individual hardship and incertitude, the tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and so many things that seemed to come together in just a few years, things that were so disastrous for the whole world." Like Jeremiah, the prophet of the Book of Lamentations, who mourns the destruction of Jerusalem through the use of acrostics, dirge and communal lament, Roffe, of Sephardic Jewish origins, attends to these "things that left us speechless" through elegy and meditation.
Author: Mercedes Roffe
Contributor: Anna Deeny (Translated by)
EAN: 9781848613720
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781848613720
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Width: 6mm
Item Weight: 132g
Translator: Anna Deeny
Genre: Poetry & Drama
ISBN-10: 1848613725
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 30/06/2014
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Language: English
Type: Poetry
Release Year: 2014

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